Back home again, Baxter joined the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, a fine company with aspirations to form a Scottish national theatre. Today aged 94, he lives as he has for 25 years a virtual recluse at his flat in Highgate Village, North London. Actors have agents, and Baxters was listed in various theatrical yearbooks as David White Associates. So funny that hes disappeared. However he changed his mind when she became very, very upset and appeared to be heartbroken. . Early on, Stanley had hinted at his preference to Moira. Kenneth asked Stanley what future he could expect if he married Moira Robertson. Yet my interest had been rekindled, my hopes raised, before being dashed against the same old stonewalling. It was a dark day. Having made it big south of the border, he regularly returned to direct and star in big-budget productions. There was no reply from the intercom buzzer. Oh, they all varied, said the agent, suddenly sounding irritated. Look, his shows cost a fortune partly because it takes them so long to change and do make-up and so on. Just to be with. Instead, he was arrested. View more posts, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), It was 20 years ago todayish. Feeling she was too ill to travel, Baxter told her she must stay in London. Like his previous TV specials, it was a delirious collection of sketches and set-pieces featuring Baxter in character (his meticulously observed parodies of women like Shirley Bassey and Marlene Dietrich were a trademark), complete with spectacular sets and breathtaking changes of costume and make-up. Sometimes that provides the extra spurt of energy or imagination needed to unearth a story. And he met Moira Robertson, a 22-year-old who had worked her way up from the wardrobe department to the stage. Identifying clients needs and developing solutions for both existing and new to Bank clients. Mary Brennan sees nothing surprising about Baxter being so jealous of his privacy. They all wanted him: Aspel, Parkinson. It was all very selfish of me and a bit macho. After a meal with Baxter in October 1969, Williams wrote: At one point when I said to S. I sometimes feel I am so useless I just want to die. It was a relief. Stanley confesses that he is not comfortable with his sexuality to this day. Alpha Events. Too short-sighted for active Army service, he was afraid of being assigned to the merchant navy and the Atlantic convoys, but instead he was ordered to report to the coal pits, as a 'Bevin Boy' one of the conscripted mine workers. I dont deserve it, I know, but if anyone can help me at this dreadful period, it is him, Williams wrote before leaving home. The show featured interviews about his life alongside new comedy material including a skit about the Queen's Christmas speech. She had thought about becoming an actress herself and was very supportive of her childrens aspirations for the stage: Baxter put aside thoughts of teaching to go into the theatre, while his sister went off to work as an actress in Australia, under the name of Alice Dale.Baxter had already begun broadcasting on the wireless at the age of 14, and continued doing so even after he was called up at 17 to help the war effort by going down the mines. He went. Baxter had done Shakespeare, and in 1969 he appeared alongside Sir Ralph Richardson in the original cast of Joe Ortons last play, What The Butler Saw. I had felt the relationship simply had to stop, so I broke it off. With silk gloves up to his armpits and a tiara, he announced himself as the Duchess of Brendagh and delivered a Christmas message that talked of the Queen Mum as a priceless antique. OK. Goodbye. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. I kept getting those sheeps eyes every time she passed me in the theatre and she appeared to be heartbroken READ MOREShowbiz legend Stanley Baxter says No, "I told her my preference and said: 'Thats why I am breaking off the relationship. Baxter is appearing on a charges of. Her reaction was dramatic. He relished the opportunity to live in pristine order, with a housekeeper to keep the place spotless. However, it was Moira who was determined to take the relationship to the next stage. Baxter was 46, and thought their two-day fling would be no more than a brief encounter. Exclusively representing clients who are going through a divorce and . Are you sure you want to delete this comment? . Stanley reckoned his wife's place was in the home. Then he vanished from our lives, leaving so little trace that few people even remarked on his disappearance. This was going nowhere. . He said, Oh well, if you did I should just follow you. Not him, then. Millionen hochwertiger Bilder, Videos und Musiktracks warten auf Sie. Meanwhile, if you think about it, if you changed out of your pyjamas if you wear any into your clothes, then got to the theatre and for the rest of the afternoon you had 32 dress changes to make, then you go out for a cup of tea and change again, then you do 32 in the evening. That counts for a lot in this part of north London, where there are more antique shops than newsagents. You can make a complaint by using the report this post link . What Williams didnt know, however, was the pressure Stanley had been under. Baxter himself often spoke of wanting to die. Since then, he has been completely absent from stage or television, and rarely even mentioned in print. Face full of character. There was also a tiny quote from Baxter in the Times of November 1992, about how the role of Principal Boy should only be played by a woman: All those frills. In January 1962, he visited the public toilets in Madras Place, Holloway, hoping to pick up a man for casual sex. But she ignored the signs. In 1949, it was illegal to be gay and entrapment of homosexual men by covert police officers was common. They moved to London and Moira gave up the theatre, to be a housewife. THE LEAVES on the pavement were being sucked upwards by the cold wind, or turned to mush by rain. And so, a few weeks later, I did the right journalistic thing and rang Mentorn and Channel 4. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. Moira didn't ever leap anywhere, he says softly. "However, Moira was very, very upset. Not Stanleys fee, particularly, but you have to pay the Musicians Union, youve got to pay all the dancers, Equity and so on. It was the one and only time she had ever reacted in this way. No, you might publish it. There were things he might like to say, but it wouldnt be in keeping to do so. Perhaps it was time to forget it, let him be. Baxter is appearing on a charges of. He had recorded a radio version of Compton Mackenzies book, Whisky Galore! From beyond the grave, Williams talked about him more frankly and perhaps imaginatively than any living friend would. This is it, I thought, suddenly breathless. Thinking about that took me back to my first major feature for the IOS, commissioned as an act of reckless faith by the editor Ian Jack and Richard Askwith, who ran the Review magazine and remains one of the finest copy editors I have ever come across. Those who didnt want to be troubled with it could simply take it at face value. Im a character actor. 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Just to talk to a faithful hand that takes all the chaff and grain together, keeps whats worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blows the rest away. Meet Alyssa Carson. Newspaper interviews were very rare; he never appeared on a chat show. She would go off to our bedroom and let me take the one opposite.'. British actress Moira Robertson and her husband, British comedian and actor Stanley Baxter, at Clerkenwell Magistrates Court in London, England, 5th March 1962. She became disruptive. Club gossip suggested that he preferred the bigger and busier squash changing- rooms to those by the poolside, and was a bit of a loner.) . Tayside & Stirling. We are doing this to improve the experience forour loyalreaders and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. That would seem to indicate that there might be a return at some point, even just a one-off? Thats a difficult question. Ill let you know through my agent, OK? 'I thought, 'My career will never survive this. Is there any likelihood of that happening? He was sent to India, and then further East to Burma, where he was promoted to corporal and assigned duties as a typist (Class 3). The dark, often highly dramatic script of their life together began when he joined the Citz in 1948, shortly after being demobbed. It had been run over in the street. Afterwards, I gasped, 'Have you done this before?' . And if I don't have a career, what do I have?' To pre-empt that, he agreed to let me tell his story . He is now out of the public eye, but appeared in ITV special Stanley Baxter: Now and Then in 2008 and Channel 5 documentary Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter in 2019. Wearing a calf-length tweed coat with a smart scarf folded across the throat. Jul 1988 - Present34 years 4 months. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. They became lovers. Look, do you mind? contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. 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